Be inspired to change the way the you think so that you can navigate the challenges that you face in your everyday experience.
This blog hopes to inspire you to open your perspective so that your walk in life is filled with peace, love and light.
When you move from your mind and take your instructions from your heart centre, your light has the ability to not only shine brighter, but to influence the light in others around you.

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Friday, 25 July 2014

Sometimes
you have to stop all the juggling of the balls you have in life, all the issues
that demand your attention, all the anxieties and worries that dominate your
thoughts and just say “to hell with it all.” (I would have used a more stronger
term here which is the title of a book, those of you who know It can fill in
the gap (smile)) Today is such a day; give yourself permission to be in
this moment and just BE HAPPY.

The amount
of time wasted on worries, concerns and constantly seeing lack in various areas
of your life, you end up missing the best part of living. Those
worries will still be there tomorrow, hell they could still be there next week
or next year, so what, take a day off today from all your stresses in your
life. Make a conscious choice to choose NOT to be woeful or unhappy.
Look for your joy in the little things you observe today. Hearing a
child’s laughter….feeling the sun warm your skin, a smile from a stranger,
watching ducks swimming in a pond or just noticing the glorious nature that
surrounds you even if it is just one tree or a few blades of grass. Get
out of your head for today and just be. Nature is fabulously
therapeutic when you need to reconnect with life; unfortunately, we fail to notice the
beauty that surrounds us every day.

When you
observe nature, you are observing an abundant universe. Each blade
of grass that replenishes all year round, each leaf on the tree that goes
through its life cycle, to each grain of sand found on each beach around the
world, all of this is here to remind us of the plenitude of life. When
you then turn this feeling of appreciation inwards, you recognise in yourself
the same beauty and magnificence of nature and for that moment, you remove the
enormous pressure that you place upon yourself.

Just for today,
use nature as your anchor to turn your thoughts around and be happy…it is not
as difficult as you think.

Friday, 18 July 2014

The
greatest hurdle towards my journey to my Big Self was always an enquiry that
began with the question “Can I trust the guidance that comes from within
me?” As I grew more confident in learning to navigate my way through
the differing voices in my head, the next question was “I need proof in the
guidance that I am being given!” I failed to realise, until
recently, that in order to trust the guidance within, you need to learn to
trust it implicitly. I realised I negated that trust in
asking for validation, because I placed conditions and expectations as to how
this proof was to be received. I have since managed to kick off at
least one of my trainer wheels in this area because I understand trust builds
slowly.

Your inner
guidance system shows you in the most imaginative of ways confirmation that you
what you have received is correct and it does so without you having to
ask. It is in these situations that you slowly build your wall of
trust, brick by brick with the guidance within. It does not happen overnight
but it is a process of developing the art of communicating with your Big Self,
just as you would take time to develop a friendship physically, the only
difference being is that this particular relationship is done with your inner
eye and not the physical ones. However, this element too can be
challenging because you sometimes miss the validation by not paying attention
to your present moments.

Guidance
is however repetitive when your Big Self wants your attention. This
could result in a myriad of ways, such as persistent feelings of discomfort in
a particular situation or speaking to friends and loved ones who suggest the
exact same thing your guidance told you.
It could be by reading parts in books that speak to your predicament precisely
or by grabbing your attention by getting you to notice the lyrics more
intently to a particular song. Guidance gets you to notice that
which you would ordinarily ignore in the hope that you will join the dots
yourself and discover the “Aha” moment. The key word in learning to
trust is to notice what is going on around you by being
present ALL the time. When you put conditions on validations you
will end up disappointed or deflated when it does not meet your expectation,
thus you move further away from trusting and tend to lean upon your own
understanding or rationale in regards to occurrences in your life.

Just for
today, try to remember that developing a relationship with your Higher Self
tests your awareness of your now moments consistently, this in turn teaches you
to remain present so that you can notice the signs that tell you what you heard
was indeed right!

Friday, 11 July 2014

I am open to embrace the shadows within me in order that I can reveal
more of my light.

What is the shadow side of ourselves? This is the energy that is fuelled by fear
and the ego that causes us to expose our frustrations, anger, negative
behaviours, unskilled outbursts and generally the darker side of our
nature. It will also cause us to have unkind
thoughts and possibly follow through with acts of wrong doing. We all have a darker side to our nature and
contrary to belief it is not for us to totally eradicate this part of ourselves
but to actually embrace it. The
spiritual journey is one of paradoxes, statements that seem to contradict each other
but are in fact the duality of all life , for example how can you know good if
you do not know bad or that the idea of beauty depends upon something being
identified as ugly.

Such is the place of our shadow side and our light side, the
two that generally oppose each other but could not possibly exist without each
other. When I use Louise L Hays phrase
of “You are perfect, whole and complete,” it means that the duality that we
perceive of ourselves is in reality just one.
All from the one mind and the one consciousness, living in perfect
harmony. We can exist happily within the duality of
life, once we have learned to recognise our shadow thoughts and habits. Our higher mind can view the shadow side of
ourselves impersonally, by acknowledging the dark. For example, you get frustrated by a loved one’s
behaviour which irks you and you become
angry or unkind in your thoughts. You embrace
the feeling of this anger rather than supress it and you acknowledge yourself
in that moment that the angry side of you feels hurt or annoyed. Now instead of voicing your anger and
annoyance which will result in only talking to the other person’s ego, you
direct the feeling more positively. This
is where all your practice with choosing higher thoughts come into play because
with an unskilled mind this will not work.
Whenever you are pointing the accusatory finger at someone else always
remember that three fingers are pointing back at you, this observation taught
to me many years ago, is a helpful reminder that instead of looking at someone
else’s shadow, you have three major reasons to look at your own shadow….so look
at them.

Flipping the negative to a positive means that the energy of
anger you feel can be redirected with your thoughts and dialogue with your
higher self that enable you to take a wider view of the situation rather than your
current narrow egoic view. You ask the
question, are you really angry for the reason that you think or are you really
frustrated at yourself and taking it out on someone else? When you answer honestly, this energy is
redirected from dark into light because your authentic self takes the reigns
and steers you towards healing, towards love and towards the ever increasing
light that resides in you. More often
than not in my own personal experience, I release any pent up emotion by either
punching a pillow and screaming out loudly or I exercise by giving my body a
good work out. The point is in the first
instance I give my emotions a safe outlet for expression

Just for today, have courage to acknowledge the shadow side
of yourself, for it is only when we truly look at our behaviours that we
diminish the illusionary power it has over us.

Friday, 4 July 2014

I now release my past and change my story to this present moment which is fresh and brand new.

We all have a past littered with what we define as “good” or “bad” experiences. Some may have suffered abuse as a child, domestic violence, trouble with the law, deep emotional trauma, victimisation or some other ordeal that we now create our life story around. We tell ourselves this traumatic story from the past until it somehow defines us and we incorrectly make it who we are. This is not to negate any trauma one has suffered in one’s life, but the key to growth is how we view these experiences and what it is that we tell ourselves about the occurrence.

The story that we tell ourselves from the past detaches your spiritual energy from the present causing it to fragment. This means that you can never fully enjoy your present moment because your energy is attached to the story you tell yourself of the past. In order to heal and become whole, you need to pool your energy fully into one moment in time and that can only be and will ever be the moment of now. When you dwell on the past without letting go of any hurt or pain that it caused you, your attention remains in that area. To heal, you have to forgive and let it go, irrespective if you or someone else was the cause.

Forgiveness does not mean that you are exonerating anyone’s behaviour, the forgiveness is for you; for your own mental anguish and pain the hurt has caused YOU. Forgiveness is a HEALING and it takes repeated effort before you can fully heal from the pain of the past. As part of my own spiritual program I offer forgiveness daily. Against any transgressions that I have made towards myself or others, any unkind words or thoughts that I say to myself or about others, I cleanse and heal every single night and affirm to do a little bit better the next day.

Just for today, really listen to the story you tell others and more importantly to yourself and make a note if you are fragmenting your spirit. You are indeed perfect, whole and complete. So step into your big self, let go of your past with forgiveness and begin anew.